St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-18
She Finds Her Husband Enjoying Himself
Hugely in the Company of a
Pretty Employe,
And Turns Loose With Rawhide, Badly
Scoring the Naked Shoulders
of Her Rival.
The Scandal and Sensation the Big
gest Kansas City Has known
of Late.
Nina Van Zandt in Trouble Regard
ing Her Betrothal TO Spies, the
Anarchist.
Special to the Globe.

AANSao S11 Is 4hOs, 'jdu. ia SUD-
pressed sensation of the largest local mag
nitude has just come to light and upperten-
dem society is in the throeS of expectancy
and quiveing with anxiety. The principals
to the affair are the recognized leaders of
Kansas City'S wealth and fashion. The
scene is the largest and most pretentious
hotel in the West. Champagne and keen
cutting rawhide welded by an exasperated
and almost wild femald cut no insignifi-
cant part in this most sensational affair.
Any one who has even visited the metropo-
lis Of the far west, or is at all acquainted
there, has most certainly heard of and seen
the palatial dry goods house of millionaire
G. Y. Smith, OF the firm of Dagget &
Smith. For years this firm has been the
recognized head in their line west of Chi
cago, st. Louis not excepted. In this drv
goods emporium of six stories and marble
front are over 100
PRETTY WOMEN,
salesladies, bsokkeepers, foreladies and ey-
pert dresSmakerS. At the head of these
latter is the beauteOuS and young Mrs.
LuSby, widow Of recent date. Hell eX-
pertness in clothing the female form divine
is demonstrated from the superb manner
with which she clothes her own queenIy
form. Her salary is said to be $500 per
month. In face and form the
young widow is faultless, and
she has long been the admired
of all the susceptible dudes and bald-headed
mashers in the city. Beyond kindly nod
or pleasant word, none of her admirers.
however, has even succeeded in establishing
a close acquaintance. Wine suppers, ball
parties and operas were alike refused when
timidly rendered by the love-struck money
bags. There was one, however, whose
PLEASANT LITTLE SUPPERS,
quiet little rides and tete-a-ietes were never
refused This was her millionaire en-
plOyer, G. G. Smith, who is also a deacon
in the leading fashionable church in this
city, For sometime it has been rumored
that the dry goods merchant and deacon
had cast a sleeps eye at his pretty
forelady, and that in return she
coyly smiled upon his sly advances
and in other manners encouraged him. So
bold and deeply smitten did Mr.. Smith, who.
by the way, is all of so years of age, become
that it was remarked among his female en-
ployes. 1t was noticed that he lin
gered near his place of busi-
ness later than was usual. and
that the queenly widow was not so anxious
to leave for her hotel of evenings as was
her former wont. Once, it is said, the two
were seen riding at a rapid rate toward
Westport along Grand avenue. No won
der, then, that the attentions finally
reached the ears of his wife at their paIa-
tial home on the Crest hill. Mrs. Smith is
a fierce,
DETERMINED LITTLE WOMAN
and to hear was to investigate. In covert,
suppressed manner the liason was talked of
at the Smith church, but no one dared give
audible utterance to his suspicious or the
current rumors. The bubble burst last
night. While the magnificent Coates hotel
was reSplendent i'll the glory of myriad cleo
trio lights and lovers of the theater vending
past to the Coates opera house, which is
just opposite the hotel, scene far more
dramatic and tragic than could be seen in
the temple of Momus was being enacted in
a gaudlly hung room in the hotel. Amid
many bottles of tizzing champagne and in
the midst of a dainty little dinner
were the millionaire and the widow.
Their enjoyment, from the looks of the
room, was, to say the least. huge. At the
height Of the stolen and supposed secret
festivities, wild-eyed little woman burst
into the room and with cry of suppressed
rage, pulled from the folds of her silk-vel-
vet dress lawhide and began belaboring
THE EXPOSED SHOULDERS
of the atfrighted and screaming widow,
who after the third blow fell to the floor in
a faint. Still the frenzied wife beat the
despoiler of her happiness. With face of
an ashen color and quaking limbs the
millionaire dropped against the wall
powerless to move. The table was
overturned goblets and tiny glasses broken,
liquor and champagne spilled on the car
pet, and the chandelier was broken. The
night clerk ran to the room, the proprietor
was called, hasty consultation held and
few minutes later detected millionaire
took a coupe for his home. His
wife stepped into her carriage
and swooning. hysteric, suffering
beauty was carried to her room. The local
papers have suppressed the affair and
society speaks of it in whispers. Neither
the millionaire nor the widow were at the
dry goods emporium to-day. The next step
is awaited anXiously.